In most of my lesson I have use questioning. I have used questioning to access prior knowledge, look for misconceptions in learning,and to aid in guiding student to the correct answer instead of giving it to them when they ask. I use questioning to review the homework during the start of some of my lessons to make the homework more than relevant for the students and hold them accountable for the information they were asked to read about. Through the same questioning I can gauge what the students are learning in their reading and how they are reading. If they are not understanding the main concepts they I may have to review how to read a scientific text and provide guided organizers for reading.
For lesson one I will grade their paper in which they described and identified their unknown. For lesson four the students will have written down the materials, and procedure for the water cycle they created as well as a written explanation of how the water was flowing through the cycle in terms of their experiment and what changes could be made to the cycle to make it more efficient and realistic. I will collect this during the start of the next class and grade it for the accuracy of their description of the water cycle.The guided organizers which will be used for lessons five, six, and seven which are lessons on mechanical and chemical weathering and erosion, will be graded for accuracy. In lesson six the students will be evaluated on the basis of their formal lab report. They had written lab reports more than once with my CT earlier this year and I wanted to reassess what they know about writing them and what information they obtained from their data.
One of the summative assessments will be the unit exam,
. Another Summative assessment will be a group project in which the students will adopt a body of water in RI, describe it, identify the climate, explain possible forms of weathering that could occur, identify any instances of erosion and provide ways to manage the erosion.
For lesson one I will grade their paper in which they described and identified their unknown. For lesson four the students will have written down the materials, and procedure for the water cycle they created as well as a written explanation of how the water was flowing through the cycle in terms of their experiment and what changes could be made to the cycle to make it more efficient and realistic. I will collect this during the start of the next class and grade it for the accuracy of their description of the water cycle.The guided organizers which will be used for lessons five, six, and seven which are lessons on mechanical and chemical weathering and erosion, will be graded for accuracy. In lesson six the students will be evaluated on the basis of their formal lab report. They had written lab reports more than once with my CT earlier this year and I wanted to reassess what they know about writing them and what information they obtained from their data.
One of the summative assessments will be the unit exam,